What’s Good Websites been up to? – August 2015

Here’s a little recap of what we’ve been busy with in the month of August.

A big hello

A big welcome to our new clients Mountview Bed & Breakfast (Tauranga, New Zealand) and Nuvair NZ (Papamoa, New Zealand).

WordPress core upgrade

WordPress version 4.2.4 Security Release – this release addresses six issues, including three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities and a potential SQL injection.

Sneak Peeks

Check out some awesome projects we’re working on.

Re-design of the Complete Floor Services one page website

Website design for Whipasnacka NZ

Re-design of the Spirogenetics website

Re-design and mobile-friendly conversion for Elite Limousines

Website design for Versatile Waterproofing Solutions

Up and Running

TrueTrade Painters and Renovators

Up and running the mobile friendly conversion en design refresh for TrueTrade Painters and Renovators.truetradepainters.co.nz

Country Originals

Up and running the mobile friendly conversion and design refresh for Country Originals (Tauranga, New Zealand).countryoriginals.co.nz

Tauranga Tandem Skydiving

Up and running the new website for Tauranga Tandem Skydiving (Tauranga, New Zealand). WordPress. Responsive/Mobile-friendly.

Carair BOP

Up and running the new website for Carair BOP (Mount Maunganui, New Zealand). WordPress. Responsive/Mobile-friendly.carair.co.nz

Other news you should know

YouTube has a Sleek New Video Player UI – The new YouTube control bar with volume, pause/play buttons, video time marker and menu options remains invisible and hidden inside the video square itself – unless you float your mouse icon over it. After a couple seconds of inactivity the video control bar disappears once again.

Yahoo’s Brand New Search UI Looks Just Like Google’s UI – Yahoo is testing yet another variation of Google-like search results. This change seems like it could be permanent, or if not, they are doing a large scale test at the moment, as many people are seeing the new Yahoo UI.

There you have it.. Whoever came up with the idea that having 404s gives a site any sort of penalty, you’re wrong. Utterly wrong.
— Gary Illyes (@methode) August 6, 2015

After much testing, Google has seem to officially drop the seven local results in the web search results and gone with a3-pack block.

Plus…

Organic Search Results No Longer Displayed Above Google Local Pack Results One of the saving graces for some businesses with the switch to the 3-pack is that if the business ranked #1 for the search query, they could still show up above the local pack results.

Hiding or obfuscating your WordPress version number is only perceived security. Hackers do not check your WordPress version before they attempt an attack. Instead, they simply deploy the attack and see if it succeeds or fails.

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